My absence and return - thoughts on demolished houses

[Keridwyn]

I appreciate what they tried to do with housing, to foster communities. Honestly, I think that they should have kept wards just for FCs and just put in the auto demo feature on FCs from the beginning. For personal housing I would have preferred they go instanced. Can you imagine the types of houses we could have then? The types of locations? I'd trade the community feel for being able to live in a remodeled floating Allagan habitat. A bubble of air and shards of land tethered hundreds of feet in the air and surrounded by whatever weather I chose.

Or what about living underwater in the Ruby Sea?

Dwelling in a cute chalet in Coerthas?

A beautiful Oasis surrounded by the corrupted aetherspires of the Burning Wall?

A private little realm all our own to customize as we wish would have been wonderful but it's a path that cannot be chosen now unfortunately.

[Naunet]

Can you imagine the types of houses we could have then? The types of locations? I'd trade the community feel for being able to live in a remodeled floating Allagan habitat.

Gosh yes. They could do it a la Rift's dimensions, where you can unlock different locations to build on. That and instanced housing allows for dramatically increased decor limits (think literally thousands) and more complex placement (all three axes, rotation, resizing).

Plus, the Community feature WildStar has been testing on the PTR proves you can have your cake and eat it too.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I appreciate what they tried to do with housing, to foster communities. Honestly, I think that they should have kept wards just for FCs and just put in the auto demo feature on FCs from the beginning. For personal housing I would have preferred they go instanced.

The system is that flawed that it wouldn't have made any difference making wards FC only. Players would just pay a couple of ppl to make an FC and then kick them out. Which is what happens already.